The Famine in Soviet Russia, 1919-1923: The Operations of the American Relief Administration

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Macmillan, 1927 - 609 էջ
 

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Էջ 132 - This is the dog, That worried the cat, ' That killed the rat, • That ate the malt, ' That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
Էջ 54 - I have read with great feeling your appeal to Americans for charitable assistance to the starving and sick people of Russia, more particularly the children. To the whole American people the absolute sine qua non of any assistance must be the immediate release of the Americans now held prisoners in Russia, and adequate provision for administration.
Էջ 529 - That on delivery of the ARA of its relief supplies at the Russian ports of Petrograd, Murmansk, Archangel, Novorossisk, or other Russian ports as mutually agreed upon, or the nearest practicable available ports in adjacent countries, decision to lie with the ARA, the Soviet Authorities will bear all further costs such as discharge, handling, loading and transportation to interior base points in the areas where the ARA may operate. Should demurrage or storage occur at above ports mutually agreed upon...
Էջ 400 - Unselfishly, the ARA came to the aid of the people and organized on a broad scale the supply and distribution of food products and other articles of prime necessity . Due to the enormous and entirely disinterested efforts of the ARA, millions of people of all ages were saved from death, and entire districts and even cities were saved from the horrible catastrophe which threatened them.
Էջ 14 - There remains in my mind one more point to be examined, that is, as to whether the Bolshevik centers now stirred by great emotional hopes will not undertake large military crusades in an attempt to impose their doctrines on other defenseless people.
Էջ 6 - HWV Temperley, A History of the Peace Conference of Paris, London, 1924, VI, 312-314.
Էջ 123 - I regret exceedingly to be compelled to bring to your notice the serious situation in which the American Relief Administration finds itself at the present moment in its endeavor to carry out the important work on which it has embarked, and to call particular attention to the lack of cooperation which the American Relief Administration is receiving from the Russian Government and the failure of the Russian Government to carry out their part of the agreement signed at Riga, August zoth.
Էջ 250 - Such questions," the Americans declared, "are not a part of our business. We have come to the Ukraine not to discuss politics, but to feed the hungry." "But you are mixing in politics," exclaimed the Commissar, "when you differentiate between the two Republics; when you treat with one, and refuse to do so with the other; when you regard one as a sovereign state, and the other as a subject state.
Էջ 13 - It simply cannot be denied, that this swinging of the social pendulum from the tyranny of the extreme right to the tyranny of the extreme left is based on a foundation of real social grievance.

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